"The Bartender’s Tale"
my take: When I heard Ivan Doig died (recently), I thought it a fitting time to read this. Sometimes a …
"Station Eleven"
my take: I’d been reading a lot of good books. I was looking for a great one. I chatted one …
"Tell the Wolves I’m Home"
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"Big Little Lies"
my take: I was quite surprised by the almost flippant tone of the opening of this novel. It seemed light, …
"Jewelweed"
my take: A small town saga set in Wisconsin, the novel is populated with a large cast of everyday characters …
"How to Be an American Housewife"
my take: When American service men were stationed in Japan at the end of WWII, many found Japanese brides to …
"Gaudy Night"
my take: Written in 1936, instead of being historical fiction it’s, um, period literature, I guess. Which is rather refreshing. …
"Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore"
my take: Yes! I’m a sucker for bookstore stories. A store lined with books? Yes. Yes. Yes. This is a …
Orange is the New Black
my take: Whilst visiting Daughter and her Bebe back when he was a wee thing, we decided to try the …
What Alice Forgot
my take: When Alice, a 39 year old mother of three, falls off her spin bike and knocks her head …
"Small Victories"
my take: As noted in a previous post, Anne and I are incarnations of a very similar being. So she …
"The Silver Star"
my take: The opening lines of The Silver Star are reminiscent of The Glass Castle: “My sister saved my life when …
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
my take: I always love a Fannie Flagg book…generally small-town Southern, salt of the earth people, slightly funny, slightly touching. …
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
my take: I put off starting this because it’s nonfiction AND it’s India. It was obvious to me it was …
Transatlantic
my take: I loved Let the Great World Spin and when I saw this at the book store I grabbed it. Spin had a …
"This is the Story of a Happy Marriage"
my take: This is a compilation of Ann Patchett’s various magazine articles and a few new essays ~ the book …
"Paper Towns"
my take: I very much enjoyed John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, so when I saw this at Target …
"Sense and Sensibility"
my take: I really can’t help myself: this series of current authors re-writing the Austen novels is so juicy I …
The One Plus One
my take: Having loved Me Before You, I was eager to read another Jo Jo Moyes novel. Daughter Anne read …
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